page_title: King Khalid Military City
hierarchical_section_title: King Khalid Military City
context_page_description: King Khalid Military City is a special city in northeastern Saudi Arabia and about 60 km south of Hafar Al-Batin City, designed and built by the Middle East Division, a unit of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, in the 1970s and 1980s. The consultants were Brown, Daltas, and Associates as well as LeMessurier in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The city was built to provide lodging for several brigades of Saudi troops, with a design population of 65,000 people.
  The city is named after former Saudi King Khalid bin Abdul Aziz.
context_section_description: King Khalid Military City (KKMC) (Arabic: مدينة الملك خالد العسكرية‎; transliterated: Medinat Al-Malek Khaled Al-Askariyah) is a special city in northeastern Saudi Arabia and about 60 km south of Hafar Al-Batin City, designed and built by the Middle East Division, a unit of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, in the 1970s and 1980s. The consultants were Brown, Daltas, and Associates as well as LeMessurier in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The city was built to provide lodging for several brigades of Saudi troops, with a design population of 65,000 people.
  The city is named after former Saudi King Khalid bin Abdul Aziz.
caption: Satellite photo of King Khalid Military City, taken June 30, 2002
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